Tassels or No Tassels

     The Free Press article discusses the law that bans objects from hanging on the review mirror. This law is not enforced well, and most objects are not causing accidents. Therefore, they are reconsidering adjusting the law to allow people to hang small objects such as graduation tassels. I believe that the best quote is, "I call it a 'gotcha' law. It's an excuse to pull someone over." This seems like a clever name for the law. The quote basically sums up the law because most of the "illegal" objects aren't causing any harm, yet the law provides an excuse for police officers to stack up more charges against people. 
     Overall, I feel like it is unnecessary to ban all items from the rearview mirrors since most of them will not block the driver's view. However, it is reasonable to have certain restrictions to the size of the hanging objects.

Race or Ego

        Mitch Albom addresses in his article the natural tendency of people to bring up the issue of race. People shouldn't point to or ask about the role of a person's race in most circumstances. Particularly in LeBron James' case, any negative response toward him was pegged as being a result of his race. In my opinion, people all too often wrongly point to a person's race as the reason for the dislike or disapproval of him. It may be the person's character not his race that's in question. However, the focus remains on his race which gives him an out for his poor behavior. It is not only possible but probable that most of LeBron's fans originally supported him because of his talent in basketball. They probably broke away from LeBron because of his ego not his race. Albom makes a very effective point of stating a scenario where LeBron becomes Leo, a white basketball player. "Leo" still had an hour long special on himself and still said, "I'm gonna take my talents to South Beach." Therefore, as Albom strongly states, "ego knows no color." Black or white, LeBron James has a massive ego and no race likes it.